My kid's school science fair showed me why my weekly spread was a mess

I was helping set up the project boards last Tuesday and saw how they used color coded sections for each part of the experiment. It hit me that my own weekly log was just a wall of black ink. I went home and tried using a single highlighter to mark different types of tasks, like green for errands and yellow for calls. It made my page way easier to scan in the morning. Has anyone else tried a simple color system that actually stuck?

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parkerb6528d ago

Wait you were using just black ink this whole time? That sounds so hard to look at lol. I tried color coding but it fell apart because I used like five different highlighters. Sticking to just two colors sounds way more doable.

anthony_sullivan728d ago

My old notes from last semester were a solid wall of black pen. I couldn't find key terms at all during finals. Switched to a blue pen for main ideas and a red one for definitions. It cut my review time in half because my eyes just go to the important stuff now. I get why the five highlighter system blew up, that's way too many choices to keep straight.

christopher_wilson14d ago

Actually the five highlighter system uses specific colors for specific things, it's not random. Yellow for definitions, pink for dates, blue for people, green for statistics, orange for examples. It works because it's a set rule, not a bunch of choices you make up each time. The hard part is remembering the code, but once you do it's faster than just two colors.